Ticket-issuing machine



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UNITED STATES JOHN H. MCDONALD, OF HAMBERG, NORTH DAKOTA.

TICKET-ISSUING MACHINE.

Application filed March 7, 1927. Serial No. 173,469.

My present invention has reference to an indi 'ating apparatus for use in tonsorial parlors, beauty shops, etc., where patrons await their turns for treatments, whereby each patron or customer will be delivered a card or ticket having indicia thereon to indicate his turn in occupying a chair for treatment, and wherein there is indicated upon the device the number of patrons awaiting their turn and the number of the person last being treated or operated upon.

To the attainment of the above broadly stated objects and others which will present themselves as the nature of the invention is better understood, the improvement consists in certain other novel features of construction, combination and operative association of parts, a satisfactory embodiment of which is disclosed by the accompanying drawings.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved ticket issuing machine.

Figure 2 is a vertical transverse sectional view therethrough.

Figure 3 is a vertical transverse sectional view through Figure 2.

Figure 4 is a sectional view on the line l-4 of Figure 2.

Figure 5 is a sectional view on the line 5-5 of Figure 4.

Figure 6 is a detail sectional view on the line (56 of Figure 5.

Figure 7 is a perspective view showing the clutch member associated with one of the rollers.

In carrying out my invention I make use of a substantially rectangular casing 1 arranged on a suitable base 2. The casing at one side thereof, has an opening therein, and this opening is normally closed by a hinged door 3, the said door being provided with a knob 1 that actuates a latch for holding the door closed.

Preferably the edge at the partly open side of the casing is formed with knuckles 1 be tween Which are received the knuckles 3 on the door 3, and a pivot or pintle passes through these openings to provide a hinge between the door and easing.

Arising vertically from the base, adjacent to the front thereof, there is a plate 5. This plate, at a suitable distance from the top thereof, is formed with an inwardly directed arm having an opening for the bearing of a shaft 6 in which one of the trunnions for a reel 7 is journaled, the second trunnion for the reel being journaled in a bearing 8 011 the inner face of the door or closure 3. The reel has wound therearound and secured to the core thereof a sheet 8. The sheet has equidistantly spaced transverse series of perforations dividing the same into a series of tickets 9, each being consecutively numbered, as clearly disclosed by the drawings. The tickets are fed between rollers 10 and 11 and pass through an opening 12 in the front of the casing 1. The shaft 13 for the roller 11 is influenced by springs 14 in the direction of the roller 10 and the roller 10 has on one of its ends a short shaft or trunnion 15 that passes through a bearing opening in one side of the casing 1. On the outer end of the trunnion 15 there is a milled operating head 16. The second end of the roller 10 has a trunnion 17 that is journaled in a bearing opening in the plate 5. The trunnion 17 carries on its outer face a clutch surface. 18. The trunnion 17 has a central bore or opening therethrough that communicates with a similar opening in the roller 10 and received through these openings there is a shaft 19 that has its outer end fixed in one side of the casin g 1. On the shaft 19 there is journaled a roller 20. This roller is influenced by a spring 21 in the direction of the roller 10, the said roller 20 having on its inner end a clutch member 22 for coengagement with the clutch 18 on the trunnion of the roller 10.

Having its shaft or trunnions journaled in bearings provided by the plate 5 and one side of the casing 1 there is an upper roller 23 and trained around. the rollers 20 and 23 there is an endless belt 24;. This belt may be divided by transverse lines into divisions, each of the divisions bearing consecutively arranged numerals 25 that correspond with the numerals on the ticket bearing sheet 8.

The casing 1, adjacent to the top thereof, is provided with a sight opening 26 whereby any of the numerals 25 on the endless belt 2 1 may be observed. The shaft or trunnion for the upper roller 23 extends through one side of the casing and has fixed thereon a milled operating head or wheel 27. The outer face of the casing, to the opposite side of the sight opening 26 is provided, with an outwardly projecting pin or like impinging element 28.

The wheel or milled head 27 is turned to cause the endless belt to travel over the roll crs 20 and 23 so that a desired numeral on the belt will be brought opposite the sight opening and this numeral is to indicate the number of patrons awaiting their turn for treatment. The operating head 16 is operated so that one of the tickets will be projected through the opening 12. This ticket is torn from the remainder of the sheet and given to a patron as soon as he enters the establishment. The tonsorial artist or other operator receives a ticket from a patron as soon as the patron occupies his chair and this ticket is hung on the impinging element 28. lVe will suppose that there are ten operators chairs in the establishment, that all are occupied and that seven patrons are awaiting their turn. The ticket projected through the opening 12 bears the number 11, and thelast patron in one of the chairs has given the op erator a ticket numbered 3 which is posted on the casing. After treatment a patron leaves the next chair, and the operator then turns the wheel or handle 27 to bring the number 6 on the endless belt 2% opposite the sight opening 26, showing that there now remain six patrons to be treated. The number of each patron is postedas he occupies the chair for treatment and other patrons entering the establishment are given a check which is projected through the opening 12. The upper wall of the opening 12 is preferably sharpened to insure the free detachment of the ticket from the sheet 8. A turning of the ticket delivery roll 10 in a direction for ejecting the sheet will impart a like turning to theroller 20 which will, of course, operate the belt 24: so that each additional patron entering the establishment awaiting his turn for treatment has his number indicated on the endless belt 24L through the sight opening 26. The turning of the endless belt through the medium of the upper roller 23 will not influence the roller 10 to turning in a reverse direction, as the clutch element 22 carried by the roller 20 will ratchet over the clutch element 18 carried by the roller 10.

The improvement is of a simple construction and will readily indicate to patrons entering an establishment just how many are beforehim for treatment. The device will obviate a great amount of confusion regarding the next to be treated, and it is thought the advantages of the improvement will be readily apparent. Obviously I do not wish to be restricted to the precise details herein set' forth and, therefore, hold myself entitled to make such changes therefrom as fairly fall within the scope of what I claim.

The rollers 10 and 11 have longitudinal series of circumferentially arranged slight protuberances or teats for engagement with the sheet 8 which holds said sheet from moving or slipping between the rollers when a ticket is torn from the sheet.

Having described the invention, I claim 1. In a device for the purpose set forth, a casing, a reel journaled therein and having a detachable ticket bearing sheet wound thereon, a pressure roller and an ejector roller between which'the sheet passes, said casing having an opening for the outer ticket of the sheet, an operating handle for the ejector roller, a pair of belt rollers journaled in the casing, an endless belt around said belt rollers having numerals thereon corresponding to the numerals on thesheet, said casing having a sight opening opposite one of the numerals on the belt, clutchmeans between one of the belt rollers and the ejector roller, and an operating handle for the other belt roller.

2. In a device for the purpose set forth, a

casing, a reel journaled therein, and carrying a sheet divided by transverse perforations into tickets, a pressure roller and an ejector roller between which the sheet passes, said casing having an opening between said rollers, spring means influencing the pressure roller against the ejector roller, an operating handle for the ejector roller, spaced belt rollers, shafts for said belt rollers journaled in the casing and the shaft of one of the belt rollers being received in the ejector roller,

clutch members between said roller and said shaft, spring means influencing the clutch members, an operating handle on one of the belt rollers, an endless belt trained around the belt rollers andhaving numerals thereon corresponding to the numerals on the ticket sheet, said casing having a sight opening through which the numerals on the belt are visible and an outwardly projecting pin on the casing on which the detached tickets are posted. 7 I

8. In a device for the purpose set forth, a substantially rectangular casing, a vertically disposed plate therein dividing the casing into side compartments, a reel having trunnions journaled in one of the compartments, a sheet wound around the reel and divided by transverse perforations into number bearing tickets, said casing having an outlet open ing for the tickets, an ejector roller for the sheet, an operating handle therefor, a spring influenced pressure roller over the ejector roll-er, a shaft journaled in the second compartment and freely received in the ejector roller, clutch members between said shaft and said ejector roller, spring means influencing the clutch members to clutching engagement, a belt roller fixed on the shaft, a second belt roller journaled in the second compartment above the first mentioned belt roller, an operating handle for the last mentioned beltwheel, an endless belt trained aroundthe belt rollers and having spaced numerals thereon corresponding in number to the tickets on the sheet, said second compartment having a sight opening disposed opposite the numbers on the belt and said compartment also having an outwardly extending impaling element for detached tickets from the sheet.

4. In a device for the purpose set forth, a casing, a reel j ournaled therein and having a detachable ticket bearing sheet Wound thereon, a pressure roller and an ejector roller between Which the sheet passes, said casing having an opening arranged between the pres sure and ejector rollers for the passage of the outer ticket of the sheet therethrough an operating handle for the ejector roller, a pair of belt rollers journaled in the casing, an endless belt trained around said belt rollers having numerals thereon corresponding to 10 the numerals on the sheet, said casing having a sight opening opposite one of the numerals on the belt, an operating handle for one of the belt rollers, and clutching means between the second belt roller and the ejector roller.

In testimony whereof I allix my signature.

JOHN H. MCDONALD. 

